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The prehistory of aviation (1928)

Author: Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934
Volume: Fieldiana, Anthropology, v. 18, no.1
Subject: Aeronautics -- History; Flying-machines
Publisher: Chicago : Field Museum Press
Year: 1928
Possible copyright status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the Chicago Field Museum. For information contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Language: English
Call number: 668499
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Collection: biodiversity; fieldiana

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index

List of Plates -- Introduction -- The Romance of Flying in Ancient China -- Kites as Precursors of Aeroplanes -- The Dawn of Airships in Ancient India -- From Babylon and Persia to the Greeks and the Arabs -- The Air Mail of Ancient Times -- Notes -- Bibliographical References -- Index

Fieldiana series has been published as Anthropological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Anthropology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-)

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